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Post by Vassaggo on Jul 15, 2019 18:23:00 GMT
I think this opens up a potential can of worms: Do we need an actor's nationality to match their character's nationality or is it sufficient that their general ethnicity matches the character's ethnicity? Because if we're saying someone of Japanese, Korean or Taiwanese ethnicity shouldn't play a Chinese character, does that mean we're also enforcing that someone who's British or Australian caucasian shouldn't play a character who's American caucasian? I mean, a lot of the blacks they cast in Black Panther weren't actually African right? Just had African ancestry. Would it have been better had they cast actual Africans for the roles instead of African-Americans? It's going to be a case by case situation I think, not a general rule. I don't have a problem with casting trying to go for Chinese people to Play Chinese instead of grabbing Japanese or Korean. I also don't have a problem with Brits playing Americans and American's playing Brits. As long as they can pull off the accents. I have friend who is half Japanese half White. His Mom gets taken out of a movie when there is a Chinese Person playing a Japanese person. It's blatantly obvious to her and just takes her out of the story just by the look of the actor. That's a little harder to do with American/British for us whiteys.
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